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Was Beer Safer Than Water in Ancient Mesopotamia? (opens the original)
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Welcome to One-Minute Dig, your source for quick and fascinating historical facts, presented by Petros Koutoupis of Digging Up The Past.Think you’d rather have a glass of water than a beer? Well, if you lived in ancient Mesopotamia, that might not have been the best choice. And no, it’s not because everyone was getting drunk all day.Digging Up The Past is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subs
Merry Christmas, Saturnalia or festival of Sol Invictus? (opens the original)
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Some Secrets Stayed Buried. Others Were Written Down: Lost Languages, Amarna Tablets, Ancient Treasures, New Trivia Question and More. (opens the original)
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The Pharaoh's Inbox: Inside the Amarna Letters With Dr. Eric H. Cline (opens the original)
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Petros Koutoupis sits down with Dr. Eric H. Cline to discuss his latest book, Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters & the Bronze Age World They Revealed.Dr. Cline is a historian, archaeologist, and professor of ancient history and archaeology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Together, they explore how the Amarna Letters were discovered, the drama surrounding the race to acquire and translate these ancient tablets, and what the letters actually reveal ab
The Mystery of Eteocypriot: Reexamining Cyprus’s Lost Language (opens the original)
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